November 20, 2000 Publications Harry Berger Stanford University Press published two books this year by Harry Berger Jr., professor emeritus of literature and art history: Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance and The Absence of Grace: Sprezzatura and Suspicion in Two Renaissance Courtesy Books appeared in September. The former received a publication subsidy award of $8,000 from the Millard Meiss Publication Fund Committee of the College Art Association. Berger also published an essay entitled "Second-World Prosthetics: Supplying Deficiencies of Nature in Renaissance Italy," in Early Modern Visual Culture, ed. Clark Hulse and Peter Erickson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). Berger's book, Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997), was the subject of a special forum in Shakespeare Studies, Volume 26, ed. Leeds Barroll (Cranbury, N.J., and London: Associate University Presses, 1999); contributors include Stanley Cavell and Angus Fletcher. In April 1999, Berger delivered the annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture at the Folger Shakespeare Institute, and in June 1999, he delivered the annual Elizabeth Drew Lecture at the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College. In May 2001, he will be the keynote speaker at two conferences: the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference in Vancouver and the Renaissance Conference of Southern California at the Huntington Library in San Marino. David Kaun An essay by David Kaun, professor of economics, entitled "The Anti-Semitism of John Maynard Keynes," appeared in the July/August issue of Midstream, a magazine focusing on issues facing world Jewry.